Good, keeps police honest when they know they are also accountable.
From 2016. Wheels of justice turn slowly.
It’s always interesting how “ethnic profiling” can be determined in these kinds of cases where officers were doing their job.
Finnish police had racism issues, nothing new.
Is it too much of a requirement for posters to have their facts and the law figured out beforehand. Uninformed and strictly opinionated commentary isn’t very helpful.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://yle.fi/news/3-12615347) reduced by 70%. (I’m a bot)
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> The Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Thursday that the Helsinki Police Department discriminated against two women when they were stopped by plain clothes officers on suspicion of being prostitutes.
> In its ruling on Thursday, the court said that the police had no grounds to stop the two women, and that the decision to do so was based on discriminatory ethnic profiling.
> "Ethnic profiling is a serious form of discrimination, especially by the police. It is unacceptable that people from ethnic minorities should be more vulnerable to police stops in their daily lives because of the colour of their skin or their supposed ethnicity," Stenman wrote.
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Good, keeps police honest when they know they are also accountable.
From 2016. Wheels of justice turn slowly.
It’s always interesting how “ethnic profiling” can be determined in these kinds of cases where officers were doing their job.
Finnish police had racism issues, nothing new.
Is it too much of a requirement for posters to have their facts and the law figured out beforehand. Uninformed and strictly opinionated commentary isn’t very helpful.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://yle.fi/news/3-12615347) reduced by 70%. (I’m a bot)
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> The Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Thursday that the Helsinki Police Department discriminated against two women when they were stopped by plain clothes officers on suspicion of being prostitutes.
> In its ruling on Thursday, the court said that the police had no grounds to stop the two women, and that the decision to do so was based on discriminatory ethnic profiling.
> "Ethnic profiling is a serious form of discrimination, especially by the police. It is unacceptable that people from ethnic minorities should be more vulnerable to police stops in their daily lives because of the colour of their skin or their supposed ethnicity," Stenman wrote.
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